Aunt Jen Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 One of the Best: The Hunt for Red October. It'd been a while, and I forgot some of its majesty. What a good job they did with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolan Kraps, SASS # 24084 Life Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 You know it. I think it was the best adaptation of a Clancy novel. Patriot Games being a close second. I sure wish they would make a movie out of Without Remorse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Good one!! I saw that in the theater on opening night... in Vallejo, California, right across the estuary from the Mare Island Naval Shipyard - submarine base! My now ex- and I were about the only people in the packed theater who weren't bubbleheads (or at least family of.) What a great audience to watch it with~!! Sadly... the base on Mare Island is now history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 You know, Painless and I are very patriotic with much of our families in the military as well, through the Cold War. We care about these topics, and thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of a LOT of good folks, we've progressed to the point where we no longer teach our kids how to get under their desks in the event of nuclear attack. Painless knows I care about this, and I know he does.... So cheers, in this Saloon (all raise glasses), to the men and women who've worked so hard and given so much for our freedoms and our lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 One ping only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Ya! Ya! One ping only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Of its kind, there are many movies that are basically perfect in what they do. Such as Star Wars The Sound of Music Casablanca Lawrence of Arabia China Town Blazing Saddles Singing in the Rain It's a Wonderful Life Top Gun Patton and The Hunt for Red October Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 I was Navy, but I had a desk job at the NSA. When submarines are swimming around down there, can they see the mountains and things that they could collide with? Or is it all dead reckoning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Don't think they have windshields...but I don't know if they use the periscope to look out underwater...come to think of it, and those depths, unless they had strong headlights they couldn't see anything anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Captain Nemo had windshields, didn't he? Windows to look out of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Dave Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Yeah, I reckon he did. It's a wonderful life is that Jimmy Stewert movies, right? Did thanksfiving with extended family last year, they watch it every year after dinner, I couldn't get thru it, just couldn't stand to see that poor tormented angry man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Good one!! I saw that in the theater on opening night... in Vallejo, California, right across the estuary from the Mare Island Naval Shipyard - submarine base! My now ex- and I were about the only people in the packed theater who weren't bubbleheads (or at least family of.) What a great audience to watch it with~!! Sadly... the base on Mare Island is now history. There are still some old guns on display in front of the Commandants House. I'm not sure if they ever got the museum for the Brown Water Navy going. The architecture, all those fabulous brick buildings, is something to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 They just follow the yellow dotted line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 "...Break out the rafts! Lash them to the Deck! We'll use them as shelter 'til the fleet arrives." Who could say that better than Sean Connery? :wub: :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shoer 27979 Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 There are still some old guns on display in front of the Commandants House. I'm not sure if they ever got the museum for the Brown Water Navy going. The architecture, all those fabulous brick buildings, is something to see. I was just by there last Sunday, some of the old base still does some kind of Military stuff but I don't remember what, Reserves I think. some of it is civilian warehouse and business and some of it is or will be new housing development and then some of it they just let go to hell. The moth ball fleet is just around the bend n Benica though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCatcher Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 I was Navy, but I had a desk job at the NSA. When submarines are swimming around down there, can they see the mountains and things that they could collide with? Or is it all dead reckoning? When subs are running around below the surface, and also below the depth where a periscope is any use, they rely on good maps, good inertial nav systems, and good satellite updates. It helps if you stay a few hundred or even thousand feet above the sharp rocks . . ... . SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Da one and , might I add , only time I rode a sub, I was panck sricken cuz of all dem folks in dat tight space. Remember on da mission, da Commander of da boat called fer a "periscope picknick" Never heard of such a thing. Den , da periscope came up and we took turns lookin' out at da night stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Cole 52765L Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 One of the Best: The Hunt for Red October. It'd been a while, and I forgot some of its majesty. What a good job they did with it. Saw it opening day in San Diego. They had a special showing for the sailors at the Submarine Base. Some of the scenes were made in the drydock there and one of our diesel boats was used for some of the scenes. The carpenter shop on our tender made the model DSRV used for the scenes. Great movie. Doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Harris #154 Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 It was movies on the beach at the Newport Beach American Legion - Ghost Busters BH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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